BIO

Patrick Boehler has published on China and Southeast Asia in four languages for publications in the US, Europe and Asia. After stints with Austria's ministries of defence and foreign affairs in Vienna and Beijing, he began his reporting career in Kuala Lumpur with the Malaysian online news portal Malaysiakini and, later, The Irrawaddy Magazine, a Myanmar exile publication in Thailand. He holds a doctorate in political science and has taught journalism at the University of Hong Kong.
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Foreign affairsGlobal TimesEditorial: The Diaoyu dispute "will make Japan more dependent on the US, which will only impose limited pressure on China."The Herald (Zimbabwe)
Chinese companies pledge investments in petroleum refinery, power plants and car assembly plant in Zimbabwe.National Interest
"Many foreign leaders [...] regard the Chinese dream as fully consistent with the dreams of their own countries and own peoples," writes Yang Jiechi.Beijing Morning Post*
President Xi Jinping discusses fight against Xinjiang separatists with Kyrgyz counterpart.